1varielle
From eBay Journey to Mauritius
From Princeton University Press because I read a review in the London Book Review The Study The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries
From the FoL Ray, A Standard Swahili-English Dictionary, and Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events that Changed History. Touchstones are being uncooperative.
From Princeton University Press because I read a review in the London Book Review The Study The Inner Life of Renaissance Libraries
From the FoL Ray, A Standard Swahili-English Dictionary, and Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events that Changed History. Touchstones are being uncooperative.
2ReneeMarie
>1 varielle: How many languages are you studying?? (For me, 5, but so far not Czech or Swahili.)
3ReneeMarie
One bought book, which reminds me of a Stuart Turton book I read: The Man Who Died Seven Times by Yasuhiko Nishizawa, translated by Jesse Kirkwood.
4varielle
>2 ReneeMarie: I seem to have a thing about collecting dictionaries of unusual languages. Right now just studying German and Hungarian. I still kick myself for leaving behind a Hawaiian dictionary on a trip to Kauai.
Got in the mail from eBay today a Folio Society edition of Lark Rise to Candleford.
Got in the mail from eBay today a Folio Society edition of Lark Rise to Candleford.
5ReneeMarie
One bought book: The Mystery of the Crooked Man by Tom Spencer. Total impulse. I judged a book by its cover.
6varielle
Life Stories: Profiles from the New Yorker from the FoL.
Books a Million is ready for Halloween so I picked up the Aleister Crowley Collection. From eBay The Great Hill Stations of Asia.
Books a Million is ready for Halloween so I picked up the Aleister Crowley Collection. From eBay The Great Hill Stations of Asia.
7ReneeMarie
An ARC (pub 9/25) came home with me today: The Healing Hippo of Hinode Park by Michiko Aoyama.
ETA: Read this one, liked it well enough, but returned the ARC to the bookstore.
ETA: Read this one, liked it well enough, but returned the ARC to the bookstore.
8ReneeMarie
Deleted message referred to an ARC I'm returning.
9varielle
From an LFL Leaven of Malice. From eBay Voluptuous Panic and Siegfried Sassoon: A Life. From the FoL: Last Call at the Hotel Imperial, Tangerine, Letters to Katie, The Travelers, We, Turning Japanese, Bad Trips, The Writer’s Digest Handbook of Novel Writing, and The Battle of New Orleans.
I hit a big library sale over two days and came away with two sacks of books:
The Grump Gardener
Mr. Strangelove
The Complete American/Jewish Cookbook
The Paris Apartment
Tommy Dorsey Livin’ in a Great Big Way
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
The Road to Santiago de Compostelo
Irish Wonders: Popular Tales
A Point of Law
Treasures of the Louvre
On the Art of Building in Ten Books
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
The Authorized Biography Alec Guinness
Indonesian Phrasebook
Anam Cara
Genius of Place
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
Touchstones are kaput today.
I hit a big library sale over two days and came away with two sacks of books:
The Grump Gardener
Mr. Strangelove
The Complete American/Jewish Cookbook
The Paris Apartment
Tommy Dorsey Livin’ in a Great Big Way
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
The Road to Santiago de Compostelo
Irish Wonders: Popular Tales
A Point of Law
Treasures of the Louvre
On the Art of Building in Ten Books
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
The Authorized Biography Alec Guinness
Indonesian Phrasebook
Anam Cara
Genius of Place
Silk: A History in Three Metamorphoses
Touchstones are kaput today.
10ReneeMarie
One bought book: The Banned Books of Berlin by Daisy Wood (historical fiction)
11blakelylaw
Oops, I'm a little behind & I didn't actually buy because our church was giving it away free, but August 24, I picked up 33 Days to Eucharistic Glory. That's been the most recent addition to our library.
